Make Heroine ga Oosugiru! @comic - Vol. 5 Ch. 20.4 - The first experience was for a losing heroine. The second experience was for a losing heroine. W…

[ItsThatBriGuy]

Yeah, on a personal level (as in me the reader) I like Lemon more, but narratively it makes way more sense for Yanami to be the one Nukumizu ends up with. A version of the story where Lemon is the main girl would have to be structured differently to have the "will they/won't they" part of the romcom pay off in a satisfying way with her at the end.

Amamori gives Remon a fair shake in later volumes (particularly in V5-6 -- the former helping Kazu properly contexualize his few remaining middle school memories, the latter entrusting him with enormous influence on her future and telling him in a way he actually seems to understand that she's looking at him as her next romantic target -- and, just a little bit in V7, but it's a big little bit: she's casually showering and bathing at his place on the regular in the background after the events of V6).

Will it be enough? She'd likely not be in a good position were she to be the first to confess to him in a way he takes seriously in the moment (unlike poor Shikiya-senpai at the end of V4), but V8 looks like it's being set up so she won't be that person after all.

 

[apstorm]

So... what I'm reading from that... Lemon's going to be a sacrifice to pave the way for someone else, like Anna, who seems narratively setup to be the female lead.

As for personal preference... I'd have wanted Chika, since they feel like they align so well (among the three I know, at least), but I feel like she'd never go for it, especially with the other two presumably being more overt over time. They probably ultimately work better as besties who can talk tap water and literature when they hang out.

I just feel like a love interest is best if they're also like a best friend, they just happen to also have chemistry beyond that sort of relationship. Which is why I particularly liked the end-game pairing for Nisekoi, since they totally acted like best friends by the end who wanted to be more than that. It also helped that they worked hard to overcome their initial revulsion to each other, and you could see that change over the course of the story. Helps make it more interesting when there's a lot of potential character and relationship development on the table from the start like that.

It can be argued that's kind of the case, here, too, since Anna has a lot of baggage to sort through with her lingering feelings for Sosuke, and Nukumizu's self-perception road-block that goes a bit even further with Anna and that belittling her as just a 'sea otter' and such. At least based on the anime, the other girls felt like they dealt with their rejections a lot more gracefully.